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As soon as tbe boxes have becu put on board tlie steamer tliey should, 

 without being exposed to the warmth for any length of time, be placed 

 in the ice-house on a layer of matting so as to avoid concussiojis. 



In the ice-house a place should be selected where the thermometer 

 indicates afcic degrees above zero,* as a lower temperature, if it should 

 enter the boxes, would of course destroy the life of the eggs. 



After arriving in port the sailors should be instructed to avoid all 

 concussiotis of the boxes; their stay in a warm atmosphere should be 

 shortened as much as possible; and when the boxes leave the steamer a 

 few pieces of ice should be placed on them. 



V. BEHE, 

 President German Fishery Association. 



INTRODUCTIOIV OF CAI.IFORIVIA SAI^MOIV IIVTO OIVTARIO, MITH 

 REiUARK!^ OIV THE DISAPPEARAIVCE OF MAIIVE 8Ar<R10IV FRO.V 

 THAT PROVIIVCE. 



By SAMUEL, VTILMOT. 



Newcastle, Ontario, November 10, 1881. 

 Prof. S. F. Baied, 



Washington, D. C. : 



I have to apologize for the great neglect in not giving you previous 

 notice of the safe arrival of the half million California salmon eggs ob- 

 tained through your kind instrumentality. They all arrived in the best 

 possible condition and are now hatched, as lively little fish. By far the 

 greater ijortion of this consignment was sent to the vSaint John's River 

 hatchery in New Brunswick. Previous experience having taught me 

 the importance of having a special messenger to look after fish eggs in 

 transitu, I sent my son to meet the Californians at Chicago. He dropped 

 oft' at this station a portion of the eggs for our hatchery here, and j^ro- 

 ceeded on with the balance (about 350,000) to the Saint John Elver, 

 meeting with (comparatively speaking) no losses whatever. 



This venture will give a very fair trial of what California salmon will 

 actually do in our Atlantic rivers, as I i)ropose turning the whole of the 

 product of this hatchery directly into the Saint John near the hatching- 

 house, which is situated about 200 miles up the Saint John's River from 

 the Bay of Fundy. I trust, for the especial gratification of yourself and 

 myself, these young " Californians" may not turn truants upon us alto- 

 gether, but that some of them may return to us for further education 

 "in the way in which they should go." 



About this time last year I wrote you concerning a strange freak of 

 nature with the salmon in this stream, namely that there were no males 

 to be found in the creek to impregnate the eggs of the females with, and 

 that all of the salmon entering it (though much less in numbers than 



* Probably K^aixmur. — (Translator's note.) 



